... directed SIR Spheres, which had been recommended to me, because one SIR Sphere treatment has four times the amount of radiation as one Lutetium 177 PRRT treatment. The more radiation a patient has the ...

Dosimetry is used by many centers that preform PRRT. Wikipedia defines Dosimetry as "the measurement of the absorbed dose delivered by ionizing radiation, the term is better known as a scientific sub-specialt ...

... the radioactive material it is absorbed into the tumor by the receptor. The localized radiation then begins killing the tumor cells. PRRT was the obvious best choice and the leading PRRT testing and tria ...

Patient knowledge and understanding of radiation from diagnostic imaging is lacking, according to a research letter published online Dec. 31, 2012, in JAMA Internal Medicine . More than half of patients ...

CCAN's annual conference was held in Long Island, New York on August 20th 2011. The theme of the day long conference was "Multidisciplinary Approach to the Diagnosis Treatment and Monitoring of NETs." ...

... he amount of Valium I was taking combined with the anti-nausea drug had me a little tipsy. So, I elected to use a wheelchair. Upon entering the customs hall in Charlotte, the radiation I was emitting ...

... one chemical formula. The targeting device was the octreotide, the very medication which attaches to receptors on the cancer cells to turn them off to control symptoms. The weapon was radiation provid ...

... limit to the amount of radiation their body can absorb during their lifetime, so the number of treatment cycles will be constrained by this factor as well. As of 2011 the maximum number of cycles that ...

... with the Nuclear Medicine Ward. This Ward is located on the Third Floor of the main building and we are told that the walls of the Ward are lead lined because of the radiation used there. There are numerou ...

... arise from radiation toxicity affecting three things: 1) the blood system producing Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells and Blood Platelets, 2) the functioning of the kidneys and 3) the functioning of the ...

... several days following discharge and while traveling. This is done to help the kidneys flush any radiation from the body.
The best thing a patient can do is to plan ahead and have some medications on ...

... you. At the end of the treatment all clothing/worn items will be scanned with an instrument used to determine radiation levels. If radiation is found to be above a certain level, then some articles of ...

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Typically this is among the first tests/scans to be done on a patient because the function of the kidneys is essential to the PRRT process. The kidneys are key to ridding the body of the radiation that ...

The first step in the process of receiving the PRRT is to give the patient a dose of 1,500 ml of an amino acid solution designed to protect the kidneys from the effects of the radiation. The amino acid ...

... that patients should be administered lower amounts of radioactivity at more frequent and prolonged intervals (3-6 months in between therapies), rather than given a high dose of radiation at shorter intervals. ...

The early efforts at PRRT were done with a form of Indium-111. This form of radiation was found to have a very short radius of action, causing little or no collateral damage to nearby tissue, but was ...

... attract the octreotide and this chemical with the radioactive material is absorbed into the tumor by the receptor. The radiation then starts to kill the tumor cells.
This makes PRRT a form of targeted ...